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You can install one of the Office 365 license on to your girlfriend’s laptop.

It is called as ‘Family Members’, where in you can use the same Microsoft Account in order to install into your closed one’s computers. It need not be required to be live in the same house or doesn’t require to have the
same mailing address.

That is probably stretching the intent of "family", but there is no clear definition of the limits. MS does not say what (if anything) it does to enforce the family criteria. Same home address is not relevant, since parents are sharing the license with
students at post secondary school in widely separated geographic locations. The exact phrase in the license is
<snip> for use only by members of the same household as the licensed subscriber. </snip
but no definition of a household ...

In order to share your Home Premium license with anyone, "family" (or not), you, the "administrator" of the license have to log in to install it initially on the computer.

If you purchased Office 365 Home Premium, you can reinstall Office at any time at
office.com/myaccount by signing in with your Microsoft account. You do not need your Product Key to reinstall or install Office on additional computers.

Why sign in? Your files and settings are always waiting for you with Office 365

I experienced a similar issue with slow typing speed in Office 365 Word. I edit a substantial number of Word and Excel documents for work and found the SkyDrive storage incredibly beneficial for working remotely.

I realized though that documents which are being edited from Skydrive, not a local copy, experience the slow typing speed issue.

The fix: From word: File, Options. Word Options has an advanced tab on the left labeled 'advanced'. About 3/4 of the way down, a category for 'Save' options exists. The default setting has 'Allow Background Saves' checked. I uncheck this option and instead
check 'Always create backup copy' and 'Copy remotely stored files onto your computer, and update the remote file when saving'.

I assume that if you're storing the files on Skydrive, or Dropbox, or web, or maybe even some external drive or flash memory this background save could be lagging and result in typing slowness. Either way, I changed the advanced options, and no more problem.
Maybe it'll work for you.

Excel didn't have the option, and I usually save a local copy anyways due to the working file size.

In Office 2013 MS added a funky new UI feature called “Animation”. It is supposed to “smooth out”, or some such nonsense, cursor movement in the applications. I first noticed it in Excel 2013. I found it so annoying that that “feature” alone was enough to
completely turn me off from using the whole Office 2013 bundle. Fortunately, or not (?), I found these fixes.

<snip> Hi, I have exactly the same problem, Excel2013.

Just opened a new spread sheet, typed the nr 1 in cell A1 to A22, took me about 10 seconds.

Took excel 55 seconds to display, looks like slow motion. </snip>

The article in the first link has a link to another article with a downloadable file that will make the change without you having to edit the registry manually

Yes, what I would like is a definition of household. If Microsoft means I could share it with my partner, or if they are going by the legal definition of family.

As I am still not sure, I will refrain from installing it on any other computer than my own. Even if Nayana (Support Engineer) claims that I indeed could. If you could provide an official definition or re-confirm the above, I would of course be happy to
share it.

You can install one of the Office 365 license on to your girlfriend’s laptop.

It is called as ‘Family Members’, where in you can use the same Microsoft Account in order to install into your closed one’s computers. It need not be required to be live in the same house or doesn’t require to have
the same mailing address.

For further clarification, reply and we would be happy to assist.

Thank you.

My daughter lives in a townhouse next door may I install one of my Offce 365 licenses on her husband's computer?